The Mass Timber Podcast: Explore Mass Timber industry conversations

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How to Make Mass Timber Compete on Cost w/ Josh Dortzbach, FOREFRONT Structural Engineers

2026-10-2357:06

Josh Dortzbach of FOREFRONT Structural Engineers on why timber gets cut at pricing, and the labor, system, and design decisions that keep it in the building. Find New Projects & Partners at the Mass Timber Group AEC Convention Grow your mass timber network. Join our newsletter

CLT Plant Size, Cost and Process: Small vs. Large Lines w/ Ledinek’s Jaka Bradač

2026-10-1641:27

How CLT and glulam are made, what a small plant costs compared to a big one, and how fast each gets product out the door. With Ledinek’s Jaka Bradač. Learn from real mass timber projects and industry leaders by joining our newsletter: https://www.masstimber.group/newsletter-youtube Find projects, meet partners and advance your mass timber work by attending the convention: https://www.masstimber.group/summit 🔴 Subscribe for more Mass Timber expert interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@massti...

New Glulam Species, 3D-Curves & Impossible Projects with Art Massif

2026-07-1830:17

Learn from real mass timber projects and industry leaders. Join our Newsletter: https://www.masstimber.group/newsletter-youtube Connect with the mass timber industry. Attend our conference: https://www.masstimber.group/summit An ambitious mass timber design usually meets the same three answers. It's not feasible. It'll be too expensive. Switch that part to steel. This episode is about a manufacturer that built its entire business around a fourth answer: yes. Dave Savard, Director o...

Why Hybrid Is the Future of Mass Timber (Expert Panel)

2026-06-2957:50

Attend the Mass Timber Group Summit: https://www.masstimber.group/summit Mass timber needs steel, and steel needs mass timber. This episode is a panel on hybrid mass timber construction: where CLT, glulam, and cold-formed steel contribute to industry growth, and why hybrid systems are how mass timber scales in North America. It covers what actually drives cost in a mass timber building, how to control fiber volume and connection design, why standardizing connections and erection the way the s...

Stop Waiting for Better Building Products w/ Zenon Radewych of WZMH Architects

2026-06-0635:08

Mass timber projects don't succeed because of one company, but entire ecosystems. Most of us working in mass timber design it, engineer it, or build it. A few are inventing the products that will take it to the next level. Zenon Radewych is one of them. He's a principal at WZMH Architects, a 65-year-old firm based in Toronto, and the person behind sparkbird, the R&D lab WZMH built inside their own office. In this episode, Zenon walks through what's coming out of sparkbir...

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The Mass Timber Podcast: Explore Mass Timber industry conversations